Aching in the legs

Aching pains in the muscles of the legs can be caused by the most commonplace reasons: excessive load or, conversely, prolonged stagnation, long walking in uncomfortable shoes, etc. Such pain can occur in any healthy person. But sometimes the symptom should not be ignored.

Causes of aching leg pain

In addition to natural causes, there are a number of medical factors that can lead to such symptoms.

Vascular diseases

Varicose veins and thrombophlebitis are the most common causes of aching pain in the legs. In case of varicose veins, the pain usually has a pressing character, increases with prolonged standing or sitting in one posture, temperature changes, changes in the hormonal background, for example, during the menstrual cycle in women. With active movement of the ankle and raising the limb above the horizontal, the pain decreases.

With thrombophlebitis, the pain is strong enough, has a pulling and pulsating nature, it can be amplified by palpation of the affected area.

Diseases of the joints

The diseases that most often cause aching pain in the joints of the legs include arthritis and arthrosis, gout, bursitis (inflammation of the knee joints). With such diseases, in addition to severe aching pain in the legs, stiffness of movements is observed, sometimes, mobility is limited, pain is aggravated under physical loads and weather changes (meteosensitivity). With bursitis, aching pain can be observed not only in the knee region, but also in the muscles of the leg.

Myoenthesis and paratenonites

These are common names for a group of inflammatory diseases of the muscle tissue and ligament apparatus of the lower limbs, caused by microtrauma and chronic overstrain of the leg muscles. The ailments are characterized by aching pains in the muscles of the legs, strengthening during movement, swelling in the area of ​​the lesion, developing with time, muscle weakness.

Neurological diseases

Most often, the cause of pain is sciatica (sciatica) inflammation and lumbosacral osteochondrosis, in which there is a drawing pain in the inner and back of the thigh.

In addition, the appearance at the end of the day aching pain in the legs - it is not uncommon for flat feet, in the case of improper selection of shoes.